Teacher and the class sizes are go and so i mean i think i think its san antonio and plano right now theyre talking about closing a number of traditional public schools. And thats a lot to do with Charter School enrollment. And so thank you were waving at me and im just here to ask them how theyre but thanks everyone for those wonderful for me thank now without further adieu tonight, i am very excited to welcome Andrew Mckevitt celebrating the release of country gun capitalism and culture and control and cold war just as World War Two transformed the United States into a Global Military and economic superpower, so too did forge the gun country. America is today after 1945 war ravaged european nations possess large supplies of mass produced weapons and american entrepreneurs seize the opportunity to, buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and resell them stateside. A booming Consumer Market made cheap guns, accessible to millions of americans and guns ownership and violence began
And urban uprisings fiercely challenged it. Meanwhile, Gun Control Groups were diverted. Their abolitionist roots toward a conciliator or a fundraising, focused strategy that struggled to limit the stockpile of firearms. Gun country recast the story of guns in postwar america. One of cold war and racial anxieties. Unfettered capitalism am an exceptional violence continues to haunt us to this day. Andrew mckevitt is john de winters endowed professor of history at Louisiana Tech university. He is the author of consuming japan, a popular and the globalizing of 1980s america. Covert will be joined conversation with matthew dallek. Matthew dallek is a historian and professor at George Washington universitys graduate school of political management. He is author most recently of birchers how the John Birch Society radicalized the american right. Please join me in welcoming to politics and prose. Andrew mcdevitt and matthew dallek. Dreyfus. All right. Okay. Well, thank you to politics and pros
The way that conservatives have operated, which is the politics of hate and hostility and division. We have seen that here in london in susan halls campaign, where she has joined facebook groups that incite against the labour candidate sadik khan, that is the politics of hate that this party, a Mainstream Party of government has allowed to happen, allowed to divide people in our country. That is not the politics that we want or need in our country. We need a country that has brought together, a hopeful country, where people are brought together and we work together, and that is the kind of leadership keir starmer and the labour party will practice, and we will work hard to bring people together, so that we can serve the british public s interest, not this narrow interest that the conservatives, the Self Serving Interests of the conservatives have shown in recent years. They have broken this country, our Public Services are broken, our nhs is broken, ourtransport services are broken, ou
Open fields. Thousands turn out in hull to see the queen as she visits key innovations in the city of culture. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Crisis talks are being held in the capital of zimbabwe, harare, after its long term leader Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the countrys military on wednesday. Officials from south africa are meeting the 93 year old and also zimbabwes generals, who deny theres been a coup. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says mr mugabe must resign but sources suggest the president is resistant. President mugabe has been in control of zimbabwe since it threw off white minority rule in 1980. However, the power struggle over who might succeed him, between his wife grace mugabe, and former Vice President emmerson mnangagwa, has split the Ruling Zanu Pf Party in recent months. Last week, mr mugabe came down in favour of his wife, sacking mr mnangagwa, a veteran of zimbabwes anti colonial struggle. That proved too much for military leaders, who
A shot. In iran hundreds of thousands rallied to mark the Islamic Revolution thirty nine years ago. A warm welcome at the winter games north koreas delegation talks politics with south koreas Prime Minister install the teenager taking over the slopes of the Winter Olympics seventeen year old greg gerard becoming the youngest snowboarder to whatever they call. Israel says that its responded to the downing of one of its warplanes by Syrian Government forces with its most significant attack on syria in decades israeli airstrikes reportedly hit the calcutta air force the outskirts of us away in southern syria and a weapons step only at about the capital damascus Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting his cabinet with developments in syria expected to take center stage at the weekly gathering russias present. Vladimir putin has cautioned netanyahu to avoid any steps that could further escalate tensions for more on russias reaction were chalons is live for us in moscow but first lets b